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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Twitter has launched a new way to punish users for bad behavior, temporarily "limiting" their account.
Some users are receiving notices their accounts are limited for 12 hours, meaning only people who follow them can see their tweets or receive notifications. When they are retweeted, people outside their network can't see those retweets.
Some speculate these limitations are automatic based on keywords, but there is no hard evidence.
This would be fine if this was used uniformly to clamp down on harassment, but it appears to be used on people, simply for using politically incorrect language.
Source: http://heatst.com/tech/twitters-new-tool-to-crack-down-on-politically-incorrect-language/
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:58AM
And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims? You can never have a guarantee that there will be a replacement of that niche with a freedom of your speech to your liking. We got lucky with Soylentnews, but there is never a guarantee of a viable alternative.
I'm quite capable of communicating with those with whom I wish to communicate without Twitter or Facebook or any other entity who profits off the creativity of others.
Have your wits been so dulled by booze and 140 character messages that I need to list the myriad methods by which that's accomplished?
The problem is, that you are more often than not using a service that others are paying for, and are subject to their rules. In my ignorance I objected to being banned permanently from Slashdot, because they were all about free speech, right? Until they weren't.
You're making my point for me, aren't you?
Here, I'm pretty sure that the leadership wants to choke the living shit out of me. The tricky part about things like that is that, if you want to have an online forum espousing free speech, you might not get trolls who can say insightful things from time to time. You might just get total garbage. So how do you deal with that garbage? How much do you grow to dislike it before you enact more stringent measures?
As I pointed out a while ago (I'm took lazy to go look it up and post a link to my comment, but perhaps it stuck in that pickled brain of yours) eth, you're a fucking asshole. But you're *our* fucking asshole. You say all sorts of offensive, nasty and ridiculous bullshit. Much of it I find to be somewhere between laughable and downright hateful. Now and again you say something worthwhile.
Then again, even if you never said anything worthwhile, you're certainly tolerated (and welcome here, at least by me) by most folks because anyone can have their say here, even if it's complete horseshit. Much of that comes from the management, and that's something I cherish about this place. As I'm sure, do you.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:39PM
"eth, you're a fucking asshole. But you're *our* fucking asshole."
Awwww, I just got a warm fuzzy feeling . . . . oh wait, I think I pissed my pants. Never mind.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:19AM
Awwww, I just got a warm fuzzy feeling . . . . oh wait, I think I pissed my pants.
Well, that Depends®.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:41PM
I like Ethanol: he provides the ying to my yang. (Did that sound gay to you?) :)
He sometimes says VERY insightful things and often makes me think. At the least, he gives me a chuckle.
Two thumbs up to Ethanol.
"Our Ethanol": yuuuuuuup!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---